startup planning

Agile: The New Way to Start up a Concierge Medical Practice

As a veteran healthcare management consultant with more than 30 years of practical experience, I am frequently engaged to help physicians plan, launch, change, or improve their medical practice operations. Lately the calls have been coming with increasing frequency to help recent graduates and hospitalists establish a new concierge private practice. In other instances,...

7 Best Practices to Launch a Successful Medical Tourism Program – the right way

Maria Todd’s feature article that appeared in Middle East Health Tourism Magazine “7 Best Practices to launch a successful Medical Tourism Program – the right way – “ The author gives expert guidance to government agencies, investors, hospital executives and physicians about how to overcome the inherent challenges in starting a medical...

Will a U.S. insurer care if a medical tourism hospital is accredited?

Pictured above, representatives from Mercury Healthcare International, BUPA, Custom Assurance, and a TPA in India tour Sime Darby Hospital in Malaysia. Medical tourism hospitals often call Mercury Advisory Group to “get them into insurance networks”. Many times they are disappointed to find out that they’ve been misled on just how difficult it is to...